How to determine which language(s) were used to build a .NET assembly

While in most cases there is no explicit information in an assembly as to which languages it was compiled from, it is possible to make an educated guess as to which languages were used. This is due to the fact that each different .NET compiler leaves it’s own unique type of fingerprint. In this article I discuss both my methodology for finding these fingerprints and which were unique to each language I used.